I don’t understand this.  I got an email this morning telling me that in England, they stopped teaching the Holocaust to pupils for fear that it will offend Muslims.

Um, hello?

Muslims had nothing to do with the Holocaust, so why they’d be offended is beyond me.  If anyone should be offended, it should be the germans, but I digress.  In any case, I think it’s a load of bull.  People that deny that it happened are ignorant fools with some kind of evil agenda.

It is undeniable that the Holocaust happened.  Any one that has been to Europe, and seen the concentration camps, and heck anyone that has studied history knows about it, knows why it happened, knows how it happened and knows who did it.  Fortunately, I found this other article, dated after the first one that says that the first article isn’t entirely accurate.  The whole thing still bothers me though.

Seems like the thinking is “if they stop teaching it, then it will seem like it never happened.”  As time goes by, and the people that experienced it, the people that liberated the camps, and the people that have dirty hands from it die off, it’ll be easier to pretend like it never happened.

It’ll be harder to put a real human face to the whole affair. Is it political correctness that makes a school entity not teach something for fear of offending, or what is it? Is it fear that some muslim fundamentalist is going to blow up their school?  If so, how is that not racist? Fear mongering, for any purpose is wrong, it’s one of the basis of demagoguery.